Woman injured in blaze

A 58-year-old St. Augustine woman was in critical condition Thursday after a fire engulfed then gutted her mobile home the night before.

At about 11 p.m. Wednesday, a deputy got to the home, at 4724 Avenue D, and found Joy Bromley on fire and lying on her bedroom floor.

"I proceeded to jump over the backyard fence to grab and pull her away from the flames," St. Johns County Sheriff's Deputy Anthony Borra II wrote in a report. "I then rolled the female on the ground to extinguish the flames."

St. Johns County Fire Rescue spokesman Jeremy Robshaw said Bromley suffered smoke inhalation and burns all over her body, but Borra did a "great job" to get her out when he did.

She was transported to the St. Augustine/St. Johns County Airport, and from there was flown to Shands at the University of Florida hospital in Gainesville.

Investigators from Fire Rescue and the state fire marshal's office didn't yet know what caused the fire, Robshaw said.

The home was completely destroyed.

Noting that it was an older-model mobile home, Robshaw said, "They have a tendency to burn more rapidly" because of the materials they were built with.

According to county property records, it was built in 1985 and was worth more than $11,000.

In front of the charred remnants of the home stands a sign that reads: Beware of dog, survivors will be prosecuted.